Museums and the Web

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Ruckus Wireless: The Smart Wi-Fi Antenna Technology That Steers Signals to Users.

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For greater speed, fewer errors, and instant bandwidth delivery, BeamFlex offers first-of-its-kind smart antenna technology that maximizes signal coverage, throughput, and network capacity.  BeamFlex consists of a smart, compact antenna array with multiple elements, which can be combined in real time to form unique antenna patterns.

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Exhibitor Briefing - discuss your product. Confirmed Exhibitors only
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Solving the thorny last mile of mobile app delivery : smArtaccess, a highly customized Wi-Fi system

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Wi-Fi
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app
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delivery
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access
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Mobile Phones and Visitor Tracking

Julian Bickersteth, Smarttrack and International Conservation Services, Sydney, Australia; and Christopher Ainsley, Shoppertrak, USA

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Google Analytics provides museums with extensive data around visits to their virtual sites. Physical visits and directional paths which visitors take around museums are currently much harder to monitor. This paper discusses the opportunity that mobile phone Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and TMSI signals provide to allow visitor tracking. The resulting data has potentially great value to museums in understanding how exhibitions and museum spaces are used, in forming exhibition design, assessing the return on investment of interactives, and even profiling visitors. A pilot study undertaken in the retail sector is discussed.

Keywords: visitor tracking, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, TMSI signals

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Mobile Phones and Visitor Tracking